Donald Trump is delusional
On Tuesday, we had another round of primaries, one of which was held in New Jersey, the state Donald Trump is somehow convinced he has a shot at flipping, despite losing it by 16 points in 2020. Although there weren’t really any serious contests on the Democratic side (Rep. Andy Kim was the runaway nominee for the state’s U.S. Senate race), Democratic turnout far exceeded the Republican turnout. This shows a fair amount of voter motivation by itself, but there was something else in one of the night’s few surprises.
When Donald Trump decided to throw a fairly expensive rally in not one of the swing states he needs to flip for re-election, but instead in Wildwood (one of the more Republican areas of the state), he did it largely to endorse Christine Serrano Glassner for U.S. Senate. Glassner went on to lose the primary to Curtis Bashaw, endorsed by the state’s former governor Chris Christie (who now touts himself as an anti-Trump conservative.) It was also pretty decisive for Bashaw, who won by seven points in a multiple candidate race and still has yet to endorse Donald Trump for president.
With another round of policies we see that Donald Trump’s word is largely worthless, with even a good number of his base running to a candidate that he never really supported to begin with. Even though the presumptive nominee should be cleaning up right now, there’s hardly been a primary since the beginning where the former guy shows a glaring degree of weakness. Let’s make sure we finish him off on Nov 5.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making